Hacker News: ishanmahapatra

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal"

ishanmahapatra — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:28:28 +0000

Can you expand on your paper computer? It sounds fascinating.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Creator Sues for First Amendment Rights After Being Blocked from JD Vance Event"

ishanmahapatra — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:26:05 +0000

Isn’t protection from retaliation by the government the point of the First Amendment? This wasn’t Facebook banning someone, this was the Secret Service saying “We know where you stand”.

Mocking isn’t making a threat. If it was, then the President shouldn’t have had his first term, let alone the second.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Lettera, a native, refined Markdown editor for macOS"

ishanmahapatra — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:49:26 +0000

I don’t see why I would switch from iA Writer, which is already a refined Markdown editor (and is cross platform).

What did I miss on the landing page?

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

ishanmahapatra — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:26:03 +0000

There’s the “unlocking the commons”[0] model used by Tim Carmody and Craig Mod.

[0]: https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/unlocking-the-commons/

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

ishanmahapatra — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:01:55 +0000

There are some forks of it that seem more recent:

1. Candlestick https://github.com/Candlestickers/Candlestick

2. StickmanRed’s Fork https://github.com/StickmanRed/wick-editor

3. This brand new fork: https://forum.wickeditor.com/t/started-my-own-fork-luke-tool...

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ishanmahapatra — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:05:38 +0000

I occasionally write at https://www.ishanmahapatra.com

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Don't Download Apps"

ishanmahapatra — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:28:44 +0000

My major pain point is that Google requires me to use the YouTube app to authenticate when I sign. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have it on my phone at all.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle"

ishanmahapatra — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:00:27 +0000

Unfortunately, Winterbreak doesn’t work on Kindles with the latest firmware (5.18.1 or 2). And there’s no way to downgrade the firmware to an earlier one without having previously jailbroken your device.

So now it’s a waiting game to see when the new method for the latest firmware will be ready for the public.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art"

ishanmahapatra — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:20:01 +0000

This looks really cool! Do you have any plans for an Apple Music integration for those who use that over Spotify?

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "IT workers gather in large numbers to protest 14-hour workday proposal"

ishanmahapatra — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:00:09 +0000

I think it’s 125 hours of OT in 3 months. Also, paid vacation isn’t as liberal in India as it might be elsewhere.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China"

ishanmahapatra — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 02:08:23 +0000

The location is voted on by fans at the WorldCon held two years earlier.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling"

ishanmahapatra — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:09:11 +0000

Which podcast?

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling"

ishanmahapatra — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:06:37 +0000

Man, I _really_ want to play a Nobilis/Chuubo’s/Glitch game. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around the system(s), and it’s incredibly hard to find an AP that will help me understand how they work.

How would you teach a newbie the game(s)?

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech"

ishanmahapatra — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:39:50 +0000

For me, the reason I keep a Chromium browser around is because government websites sometimes just don’t work on anything other than bog standard Chrome.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Ansel"

ishanmahapatra — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:45:20 +0000

Agreed. iOS integration is really key for me. But I can understand that the developer doesn’t have an Apple device and isn’t interested in personally supporting it because of the cost and Apple’s attitude towards open source.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Designing a Movie for Sound (1999)"

ishanmahapatra — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:11:16 +0000

As much as I loved Hannibal, the sound mix for it was atrocious. It was a meme in the fandom while the show aired, and nothing was done to correct it.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and there’s not much I’m missing"

ishanmahapatra — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:27:44 +0000

I have a 12 Mini, and I feel no reason to upgrade. I'm disappointed that they seem to given up on the smaller sized phones almost entirely.

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "The Sight and Sound “Greatest Films of All Time“ poll"

ishanmahapatra — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:27:07 +0000

I think that Fury Road is a great example of purely visual storytelling.

As for the Mad Max franchise, I think of it (I can’t remember where I first saw this idea) as the same legend retold over multiple generations of oral storytellers. So the world gets less and less detailed and the characters change with each retelling.

That’s why I see it differently than I see Star Wars 7 & 9 (I loved 8 though).

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy"

ishanmahapatra — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:36:15 +0000

That's a very comprehensive list. Thank you so much!

New comment by ishanmahapatra in "Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy"

ishanmahapatra — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:18:37 +0000

Adding on to this question: a lot of the (really excellent) recommendations here are quite focused on the Western cannon. Are there similar suggestions for reading other schools of thought?